Rare1 stop · 10.5h
WAS to LIMPeru
Lima
$347
usually $630
−45%
Most monthly lows $409–$630. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · WAS → MEL
Washington to Melbourne
Best fare, round trip
$634
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Tue 20 Oct
- Return
- Wed 4 Nov
- Stay
- 15 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 22h
- Airline
United
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
AustraliaMelbourneLaneway coffee, four seasons before lunch, and the Great Ocean Road starting an hour down the coast.Best windowMar–May · Sep–NovAirportsTullamarine (MEL) · Avalon (AVV)Every route into MelbourneFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 22 hours outbound, on a 15-night trip — ticketed under United, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $634 for 16,384 km each way, that works out to about $19 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $42 per 1,000 km that ultra-long-haul fares on this board typically run. Of the 31 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Melbourne, this is the cheapest right now — 31% under the next one, Athens. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 18 routes of similar length we watch out of Washington, where the middle fare is $1,077. We have 1 month of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Melbourne: Mar–May · Sep–Nov.
We are still collecting this route's months — 1 month of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- Dulles (IAD) · Reagan National (DCA) · Baltimore (BWI) ↔ Tullamarine (MEL) · Avalon (AVV)
- Flight time
- ≈22 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈16,384 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- United
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
Good to know
WAS → MEL, answered.
How far in advance should I book WAS → Melbourne?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Washington to Melbourne?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under United. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 20 September). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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